Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An ancient city of northwest Asia Minor near the Dardanelles. Originally a Phrygian city dating from the Bronze Age, it is the legendary site of the Trojan War and was captured and destroyed by Greek forces c. 1200 BC. The ruins of Troy were discovered by Heinrich Schliemann in 1871.
- A city of eastern New York on the Hudson River northeast of Albany. Settled in the 1780s, it is the seat of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (founded 1824).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun An ancient
city in what is nowTurkey . - proper noun A
surname derived from Troyes in France. - proper noun A male
given name , originally transferred from the surname, but today associated with the classical city.
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JERRY SCHERLING, TROY, MICHIGAN, POLICE: Basically, this is an office building in Troy, Michigan, in the area of Long Lake and Northfield Parkway (ph).
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Together we will secure his legacy, and the world will remember the name Troy Anthony Davis.
Benjamin Todd Jealous: The World Will Remember Troy's Name Benjamin Todd Jealous 2011
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Together we will secure his legacy, and the world will remember the name Troy Anthony Davis.
Benjamin Todd Jealous: The World Will Remember Troy's Name Benjamin Todd Jealous 2011
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Together we will secure his legacy, and the world will remember the name Troy Anthony Davis.
Benjamin Todd Jealous: The World Will Remember Troy's Name Benjamin Todd Jealous 2011
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Investigators identified Ms. Orna by distinctive tattoos on her body: a butterfly and the name Troy on her back and a pair of lips on her left breast area, the official said.
Missing N.J. Couple Found in Trunk Tamer El-Ghobashy 2011
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Together we will secure his legacy, and the world will remember the name Troy Anthony Davis.
Benjamin Todd Jealous: The World Will Remember Troy's Name Benjamin Todd Jealous 2011
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This year, because of a couple of different forces having to do both with enrollments and the local housing market, housing in Troy is going to be very difficult to find.
Housing for Internationals Richard Nokes 2006
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Cato at length grew so famous among them, that when Sylla designed to exhibit the sacred game of young men riding courses on horseback, which they called Troy, having gotten together the youth of good birth, he appointed two for their leaders.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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But don't look for Pitt to adopt the enormous muscles and skimpy leather he wore in "Troy" (sorry, girls.)
Brad Pitt Going On A Sci-Fi ‘Odyssey’ for Warner Bros. » MTV Movies Blog 2008
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I mean the guy's age appropriate and after watching him as Patroclus in Troy he obviously could pull it off physically.
Chris Evans Reportedly Offered Captain America Role | /Film 2010
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